{"id":444,"date":"2011-05-25T15:05:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T14:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2011-06-25T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T10:30:01","slug":"beef-up-your-flange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/exhausts\/beef-up-your-flange","title":{"rendered":"beef up your flange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This XR3i challenge car came to us in need of a custom engineering job. The front pipe to his race exhaust had been supplied by another well known exhaust builder but the front flange wasn&#8217;t strong enough. It kept bending causing it to blow.\u00a0 Also the centre section of the exhaust wasn&#8217;t properly supported causing it to droop down and catch kerbs during the race. We gas flowed the manifold as far as regulations allowed and had a new flange laser cut from industrial strength steel. We designed and built a new smooth flow front pipe and centre section, then mounted them all with extra hangers and supports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-445\" title=\"DSCF2501\" src=\"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2501-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2501-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2501-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2508.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-446\" title=\"DSCF2508\" src=\"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2508-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2508-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/aasilencers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF2508-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This XR3i challenge car came to us in need of a custom engineering job. The front pipe to his race exhaust had been supplied by another well known exhaust builder but the front flange wasn&#8217;t strong enough. 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